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...Research has shown that in the long run, immersion programs can provide cognitive benefits, including more flexible, creative thinking. Though students from the programs lag for a few years in English, by fifth grade they perform as well as or better than their monolingual peers on standardized reading and math tests. For multicultural families, the psychological boost can also be important. Lueth, a former teacher and manufacturing executive, co-founded the school as a way to expose her adopted Chinese daughter Lucy to her native culture. Lucy used to squirm when cousins asked why her skin color was different from...
Sure, we can always print online statements and turn them into paper ones. But very few of us actually do, according to consumer surveys by Forrester Research...
...other words, they use the Web to make statements more comprehendible, not less. That's an approach we'll probably see more banks pursue, says Mark Schwanhausser, an analyst at Javelin Strategy & Research. "Financial institutions are putting a lot of emphasis on paperless," he says, "and now they have to come up with what you get in return." Because we definitely are giving something...
...main reason that costs - and tuition - are rising at public universities is a drop in state support. According to Wellman, in 2006, state taxpayers spent $7,078 per student at public research universities. That's nearly $1,300 less than in 2002. Any spending increase has been largely for administration, maintenance and student services, not instruction. At many public universities, the deep recession has made the situation worse...
...time low, and the economy has more and more people turning to their kitchens to (gasp!) cook for themselves, is this niche meal on the rise? Brunch traffic was up 8% during the first eight months of this year compared to the same period in 2008, according to market-research firm NPD Group. Brunch traffic was up 15% in the South, and even in the Northeast, the land of the white-collar layoff, traffic...